Overview
New College Postgraduate Village is pleased to launch a book by Denis Alexander and Alister McGrath. These editors have gathered intelligent minds from around the world to share their startling commonality: Richard Dawkins and his fellow New Atheists were instrumental in their conversions to Christianity.
Despite a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, all are united in the fact that they were first enthusiasts for the claims and writings of the New Atheists. But each became disillusioned by the arguments and conclusions of Dawkins, causing them to look deeper and with more objectivity at religious faith. The fallacies of Christianity Dawkins warns of, simply don't exist.
Spending time in this fascinating and powerful book is like being invited to the most interesting dinner party you've ever attended. Listen as twelve men and women from five different countries across a variety of professions--philosophers, artists, historians, engineers, scientists, and more--explain their journeys from atheism to faith. In the end, you may come away having reached the same conclusion: authentic Christian faith is in fact more intellectually convincing and rational than New Atheism.
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Event Program:
6:00pm Canapes & Drinks Served
6:30pm Book Launch Commences
7:30pm Book Signing
SWAG视频 The Speakers
Alister McGrath
Alister McGrath is a Northern Irish theologian, Anglican priest, intellectual historian, scientist, Christian apologist, and public intellectual. He currently holds the Andreas Idreos Professorship in Science and Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, and is a fellow of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford, and is Professor of Divinity at Gresham College. McGrath is noted for his work in historical theology, systematic theology, and the relationship between science and religion, as well as his writings on apologetics. He is also known for his opposition to New Atheism and antireligion and his advocacy of theological critical realism. Among his best-known books are The Twilight of Atheism, The Dawkins Delusion?, Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, and A Scientific Theology. He is also the author of a number of popular textbooks on theology.
Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
Associate Professor Sarah Irving-Stonebraker is an Australian-based academic, focusing on the history of Britain and the colonial world and especially the intersection of religion, science, and politics. In 2012, Sarah took up a position as Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University, where she teaches in the History and Political Thought major. Sarah has recently been appointed Associate Professor of History and Western Civilisation at Australian Catholic University in North Sydney, as part of the Western Civilisation Program. Sarah and her husband, Johnathan, have three children, Madeleine, Charlotte, and James. Sarah and her family live in the Hawkesbury region outside of Sydney, where her husband practises law at Stonebraker Lawyers, and they are active members of a Sydney Anglican Church.
What Is CASE?
The Centre for Christian Apologetics, Scholarship and Education was established as a ministry of New College in 2002 by Prof Trevor Cairney. The CASE Centre aims to provide Christian commentary on social, intellectual and academic issues, and engage people of all persuasions in debate and discussion concerning contemporary issues of broad interest. It does this through the CASE website, the Case Quarterly publication, regular comment by our expert columnists, in-depth articles by local and international authors, occasional seminars, conferences, and the JustInCase blog.
The CASE Centre reaches well beyond traditional ‘defence’ apologetics, and seeks to encourage people to consider the claims of Christianity and bring a biblical perspective to all of life. It does this in many ways:
- Providing Christian comment on areas of popular and intellectual culture (e.g. music, art, literature, history, science, philosophy, anthropology)
- Encouraging Christians to live thoughtfully in the way they approach day-to-day life (e.g. work, money, family, social justice)
- Helping people understand and respond to direct challenges to Christianity (e.g. New Atheism, scientism, the problem of evil, and historical challenges)
- Providing Christian comment on societal trends (e.g. new technology, globalisation, climate change, changing families)
- Exploring potential ethical conflicts between Christianity and the world (e.g. euthanasia, sexuality & gender, consumerism)
- Encouraging Christians to engage the non-Christian world with faithfulness, integrity and understanding.
Commendations Of The Book:
Many people, including nonbelievers like me, have found Dawkins' strident atheism upsetting to the point of offensive. I would never have thought that - as Coming to Faith Through Dawkins shows in wonderful detail - for some, Dawkins's rantings were the spur to Christian faith.
Michael Ruse,
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Guelph, Ontario Canada
This is a novel book: real-life stories of people who have actually come to faith, not in spite of, but through Richard Dawkins. It must be his own worst nightmare!
William Lane Craig,
Houston Christian University, Texas USA
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